The Munros of Auchinbowie (sometimes spelt Monro) are a distinguished branch of the Scottish, highland Clan Munro. From this family three Professors of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland were produced, as well as several other doctors and military officers. Lineage 17th century The progenitor of the Munros of Auchinbowie is generally regarded as Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts who served as a major in an infantry regiment and saw action at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. He later took up a career of politics. His ancestry can be traced to Andrew Munro, 4th of Milntown who descends from Hugh Munro, 9th Baron of Foulis (d. 1425), an early chief of the Clan Munro of Ross-shire, Scotland. Alexander Munro of Bearcrofts had seven children: George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie (1666–1721), famed for his victory over the Jacobites at the Battle of Dunkeld in 1689. He came into ownership of Auchinbowie, a property about four miles south of Stirling through his wife Margaret Bruce of Auchinbowie. Later as a Major in Sir Charles Graham's Regiment of Foot he fought at the Siege of Namur (1695). Archibald Munro (born 1666 - died 1697) John Monro, a surgeon who was the driving force behind the foundation of the University of Edinburgh Medical School and whose descendants would later succeed to the estates of Auchinbowie. Margaret Munro. Lillias Munro. Jean Munro; married William, second son of Sir William Sempil of Cathcart. Mary Munro. 18th century George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie had three children: Alexander Munro, 2nd of Auchinbowie who married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart, Lord Tillicoultry in 1719. George Monro (1700–1757) who was a British Army officer famed for his resolute but ultimately unsuccessful defense of Fort William Henry in 1757 during the Seven Years' War / French and Indian War which was made famous by the novel and later the film The Last of the Mohicans. However, when John Alexander Inglis wrote his history of the Monro of Auchinbowie family in 1911, he had not at that time identified the younger George Monro as a member of the family. Margaret Munro - born 1707. Alexander Munro, 2nd of Auchinbowie (d.1742) had nine children: George Munro, 3rd of Auchinbowie (1721–1793) who was an army surgeon who served in the 42nd Highlanders otherwise known as the Black Watch under the chief of the Clan Munro; Colonel Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet. In